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291. on the first day of January next, and her Daughter Betty or Elizabeth aged two years on the first day of January next, Harriet to serve untill she attain the age of thirty five years, and Betty or Elizabeth to serve untill she attain the age of thirty one years, slaves for the terms above, and sound in body and mind: To have and to hold the said Negro Woman Harriet for the term of ten years from the first day of January next, and Betty or Elizabeth for the term of twenty nine years from the first day of January next, according to Manumission to the said Negroes this day executed and recorded, as above bargained and sold, unto the said Thomas H. Handy, his heirs, executors, Administrators and Assigns, against me the said Emily Hurst, my heirs, executors and Administrators, and against all and every other person or persons whatsoever, shall and will warrant & forever defend. In testimony whereof I, Emily Hurst, seller, and I, Thomas H. Handy, Purchaser, have hereto set our hands & affixed seals this 14.th day of November Eighteen hundred and fifty. Signed, sealed & delivered in the Emily L. Hurst (seal) presence of James Rea Thomas Hy Handy (seal) Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit: On the fourteenth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, the within named Emily Hurst, Seller, and Acknowledged the within Bill of sale to be her Act and deed, according to the purport, true intent and meaning of the same, and at the same time came before me, Thomas H. Handy, Purchaser, within mentioned, and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that the consideration set forth in this Bill of sale is true and bona fide as therein set forth, according to the true meaning of the Act of Assembly of 1846 Chapter 271 made and provided. Sworn before James Rea Received the 14.th day of November 1850 from Thomas H. Handy the sum of one dollar in lieu of a stamp on this Bill of sale W.m Jackson Clk State of Maryland Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that Ex.d from 75 the following Bond was recorded on the 25.th day John Richardson & others of November A. D. 1850, To wit: {Stamp} Know all men by these presents that we John Richardson, {six doll.o} Peter Wheeler, John W. Hayward, Joseph Bradshaw, John Mills and James Woolford of Tho of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, are held and firmly bound unto the State of Maryland, in the full and just sum of Twenty six thousand six hundred and sixty six dollars sixty six & two third cents, current money, to be paid to the said State, or its certain Attorney, to which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and Administrators, |
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